CVE-2026-30923ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx.
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ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. A segmentation fault occurs when a rule using the t:hexDecode transformation inspects a query string parameter containing a single character. An attacker can exploit this to crash worker processes, causing a denial of service. Service resumes once the attack stops as worker processes recover from the segfault. All versions before 3.0.15 of libModSecurity3 are affected. This has been patched in version 3.0.15.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-125
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jul 25, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
owasp modsecurity owasp:modsecurity | before 3.0.15 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.15patch, product
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-qrjc-3jpc-3h2gexploit, vendor-advisory
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